Parametric Urban Comfort Envelope an Approach toward a Responsive Sustainable Urban Morphology

By taking advantage of computer’s processing power, an unlimited number of variations and parameters in both spatial and environmental can be provided while following the same set of rules and constraints. This paper focuses on using the tools of parametric urbanism towards a more responsive environmental and sustainable urban morphology. It presents an understanding to Parametric Urban Comfort Envelope (PUCE) as an interactive computational assessment urban model. In addition, it investigates the applicability potentials of this model to generate an optimized urban form to Borg El Arab city (a new Egyptian Community) concerning the human comfort values specially wind and solar envelopes. Finally, this paper utilizes its application outcomes -both visual and numericalto extend the designer’s limitations by decrease the concern of controlling and manipulation of geometry, and increase the designer’s awareness about the various potentials of using the parametric tools to create relationships that generate multiple geometric alternatives. Keywords—Assessment model, human comfort, parametric urbanism, sustainable urban morphology.